From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 14:12:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A731065675 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:12:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C576C8FC1A for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02C52075B; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:12:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:12:19 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:subject:date:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; s=smtpout; bh=Ww9TtvJwpX9+s2wJFoLbreCjBiY=; b=ZZyotfSbiPKCDyCbyMRDeGorm7Zww+4SPoxoxkkVl531Y4B8mgLGZ7R/LroFXevvRz43BGVLZsdR5y2g1a9R1D0+DZUwDPjwEtjuVogprIolyFyMQGfh+edGz/qHTrwsb6K7Re+4SJHc4GC+07yI+Cqx4AgB54M8KEOSbNtxtO4= X-Sasl-enc: lhm+2AwDKXG2SECxP7iOKFKuvUfKfPIoKff63roQu+QN 1296051139 Received: from tcbug.ixsystems.com (74-34-19-98.dr01.rsmt.mn.frontiernet.net [74.34.19.98]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4CA46441952; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:12:19 -0500 (EST) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:12:11 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <522B2387-1BE2-4AF7-B250-B1272D301C59@sarenet.es> <18831097-9113-4059-BAEB-71185849BD90@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart12003889.O776zbyQj6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201101260812.17434.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Peter Lai Subject: Re: ZFS and "internal" mfi RAID cards, the eternal question X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:12:21 -0000 --nextPart12003889.O776zbyQj6 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday, January 14, 2011 08:03:01 am Peter Lai wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Borja Marcos wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Peter Lai wrote: > >> Is there a reason you are ordering your Dells with H700 instead of > >> H200; do you really want the battery backed cache anyway? > >> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pvaul/to= pi > >> cs/en/us/raid_controller?c=3Dus&l=3Den&cs=3D555 suggests the H200 has = jbod > >> mode... > >=20 > > Indeed, it doesn't work under FreeBSD. Or am I wrong? >=20 > Good point. My guess here is that as an LSI card, it's not really > supposed be picked up by mfi, but mpt. But most of my experience with > dell has been to not even bother with the addon raid and just stick > with the mpt controllers. Of course, they only support up to 8 disks, > so if you need more than that...well :( The H200 is a 6 gbps LSI SAS HBA under the hood that is not supported by mp= t. =20 There is a new driver in HEAD called mps that supports the card. People ha= ve=20 had varying amounts of success running the driver ported to 8.x. I can=20 provide you with a .ko that works on 8.x, but it comes with a YMMV warranty. =46WIW, this driver won't be appearing in 8.2 due to various concerns the p= eople=20 working on it had with it. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel --nextPart12003889.O776zbyQj6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJNQCvBAAoJEKFq1/n1feG2oHQH/0uAiwZBywRJOdzzc9lFckva uXuPMemjl4/AXLRagwiSrmXfbwv64I61jGAAbpT2YjV/WFgAVTIPCuEjjo22sw8K VoXks9kodonfyFsvFjqy1YB88IN8NfCR95aU4rT8CAozfgg2L/mJ0RAce9nAMNAU aarp1zC4Fhbxd3T22eYdswhoDD7O02JlqUti2zAiJu/Hydm3v5ATi8eiXRWrx9iK 3Rk+b4BbQ5S67oI1iFpQp+4AtTbTEFKr1c31JPyr5IwCqd9d41tewbXuzMHPMITU AhdMnlrsJaj4yDLLGuxsHfV07gYRFi1dSCc9Cg6gpdTrm8d77/OPZH30fAclp48= =j3q/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart12003889.O776zbyQj6--